Registration does not work

[Nightgunner5]

When trying to register through a page using the registration template, the user is redirected to the login page with ERROR: The password field is empty. They then have to click register at the bottom of that page and use the WordPress default registration page to sign up.

​Test case

[GautamGupta]

Related: #1425

[christofian]

Found this: ​http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/10334/wordpress-bbpress-registration-user-unfriendly

I haven't tested it yet, but it might work. I'll let you know when I test it if it works.

[christofian]

Replying to christofian:

Found this: ​http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/10334/wordpress-bbpress-registration-user-unfriendly

I haven't tested it yet, but it might work. I'll let you know when I test it if it works.

I tried the advice on the link, and I tested it on a multisite setup. With the original code I had gotten that error (The password field is empty), but with the new code I got redirected to wp-signup.php, which displayed another blank registration form. The user I attempted to register using the bbpress interface was not actually registered. There were no errors, but no registration.

The patch I used is attached. Someone should test is on a normal wordpress install (not a multisite one), it might have different results.

[christofian]

Fixed it. I also added html5 validation to the register page, just for the heck of it. Use form-bbp_user_register-2.diff and upload it bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/bbpress

Test it please. I'm not sure if it works on multisite...

[christofian]

the updated css file located in bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/css . Without it, the email field does not get displayed the same way the username field get's displayed.

[christofian]

NOTE: use the updated css file. Otherwise the email field will not be styled correctly.

[GautamGupta]

Contains some unrelated docs changes too (in the same files)

[GautamGupta]

Can anyone test the just-attached patch?

Todo:

• Error handling (duplicate email/username etc.)
• Docs (I realised later on that I hadn't added docs for my own changes, and as usual my bbPress copy is a lot edited, so didn't want to take the burden of re-slicing the patch.) :)

[christofian]

The register page does catch errors (duplicate email/username etc.) However, the errors are displayed on the default wordpress register page, not the bbpress one.

I think that should be an enhancement to be added later on.

[johnjamesjacoby]

(In [2970]) Adjustments to login and register forms to improve behavior and functionality.
Various documentation fixes.
Rename _bbp_topic_status meta to _bbp_status, and add migration routine to updater.
Sanity checks on $wp_query in bbp_pre_get_posts.

Fixes #1476, #1493. Props GautamGupta for original diff.